Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
STEPHEN COVEYTo listen with empathy is the most important human skill.
More Stephen Covey Quotes
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Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what’s urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.
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I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.
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Beginners are many; finishers are few.
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The deepest hunger of [a child’s] human heart is to be understood, for understanding implicitly affirms, validates, recognizes and appreciates the intrinsic worth of another.
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We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
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As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.
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Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
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Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.
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Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
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Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.
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Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.
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There are three constants in life, change, choice and principles.
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The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions.
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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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